The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 561 Divide and eat it

'Boom!Boom!Boom!Boom! '

The quiet morning didn't last long. When the morning light began to turn red, the drums of the Wei army's camp rumbled. This was Li Mian's order to gather the soldiers.

"Dong, Your Majesty, the Wei army has begun to attack the city." Yang Qinfang, who was watching from the top of the city, rushed to the square in the city. She was also wearing a suit of armor and looked heroic, but she was a little nervous after experiencing such a big scene for the first time. .

Yang Tong said angrily: "Calm down, it's just a siege, not a breach. If Li Mi doesn't attack the city, where did the soldiers get their merits? Do you think so?"

"Yes!"

Yang Tong's morale has been boosted to the extreme, even the general, who has always been an inspiring character, feels his blood boil after hearing Yang Tong's words!When everyone heard Yang Tong's question at this time, they responded with a bang.

"General Du!"

"The last general is here!" Du Fuwei clasped his fists energetically and stepped out.

"I'm here to see the soldiers of the 11th Army fighting. I don't care how you fight!" Du Fuwei was the commander of the No.[-] Army, and he had confronted Li Mi for so long. Naturally, Yang Tong would not command randomly.

"Here!" When Du Fuwei also knew that it was not polite, he saluted, turned around and shouted: "Everyone quickly return to your respective teams, pass on my order, and prepare to fight. The brothers of the Holy Majesty and the Xiaoguo Army all I'm watching, don't embarrass our No.11 Army."

"Here!"

The generals responded and quickly dispersed.

'when!when!when! '

The bell to summon the troops in the city rang, and teams of Sui troops rushed to the top of the city. The five or six-mile-long city wall was densely covered with Sui troops. The flag flutters in the sun.

The Wei army's offensive was very fast. When Yang Yu climbed the tower, he saw that the overwhelming Wei army had already lined up. After losing for more than half a month, Shan Xiongxin was also red-eyed. If he can't take Xiang'an County today, it will directly affect the To his position in the Wei army.

Shan Xiongxin made up his mind and invested 250 troops at one time, and put all the last [-] ladders, [-] catapults and [-] well fences into battle.

He stared fixedly at the raised suspension bridge, then turned to look at the rear camp, and a heavy battering ram had appeared in the army behind him, which would be his final kill.

"Attack!" Shan Xiongxin yelled with a wave of his spear.

The drums of the Wei army began to become more intense. This was the sound of the attack. Fifty thousand Wei troops surrounded by 250 ladders, [-] catapults, and [-] well railing carts rushed towards Xiang'an City like a tide.Seen from the top of the city, it looks like a huge black carpet, covering the entire wilderness tightly.

There are also dozens of catapults used to defend the city in Xiang'an City. When the enemy army reached the attack range, the arms were thrown one by one in turn, and dozens of boulders were thrown at the enemy group densely like an ant colony. Every now and then, there will be a gap in the 'carpet', blood spurts, and the sound of wailing resounds throughout the world, but the gap will be closed in an instant, and it will be submerged by the attacking enemy troops.

'boom! With a bang, a well fence car was hit by a huge rock, and sawdust was scattered everywhere. Dozens of soldiers on the nest car screamed and fell down.

The well fence is made of giant wood, covered with cowhide on the outside, and empty inside. There are stairs leading directly to a wooden platform on the top. The large well fence platform can be full of more than 30 soldiers. The front end of the platform is a thick arrow shield covered with cowhide. It can effectively resist the bows and arrows of the Sui army.There are four wooden wheels at the bottom, which are dragged by oxen and pushed by hundreds of soldiers on the left, right and rear. The whole is like a mobile house.

The Jinglan chariot is a mobile archery tower, a siege weapon that can attack the enemy on the city wall.It can be used to suppress the city with a bow and arrow, and as long as it is not damaged by a boulder, it can also transport the soldiers on the platform directly to the city. It is sharper and more convenient than a ladder, but it is heavy and mobile. Not fast, easy to become the target of the catapult.

"boom!"

The bottom of another nest cart was hit, and a wooden wheel was torn apart. The nest cart suddenly wobbled and lost its center of gravity, and fell down with a bang as the soldiers below ran away.

The [-] Wei army attacked like a tide, and the boulders thrown by the catapults on the city seemed like blood-colored waves splashed in the ocean. Under the rising sun, they looked poignant and enchanting.

Yang Tong found Du Fuwei who was commanding the soldiers to fend off the enemy on the tower, and Kan Leng who was guarding him.

"Wei Jun went crazy today, and started attacking the city without any temptation at all!" Kan Leng took a deep breath and cursed.

Yang Tong looked at the battle formation from a distance, the Wei army below the city tower was rushing down the city like a swarm of ants, and all the places outside the city where people could be released were already full.

"Your Majesty, looking at the formation of the Wei army, it seems that they intend to break through Xiang'an City at all costs." Du Fuwei, who was watching the battle intently, frowned when he saw Yang Tong coming.

"This style of play can bring out the advantages of numbers to a certain extent, and loyalty is more significant than a slow trial. It means that long-term pain is worse than short-term pain!" Yang Tong glanced at the densely packed Wei Jun, and said again : "In fact, all the armies of our Sui Dynasty attacked the city in this way, but the soldiers used to act as dead soldiers are generally slave soldiers of foreign races."

"..." Du Fuwei and Kan Leng were speechless.

I dare say that the imperial court has changed the siege tactics.

"What the Holy Majesty said is very true. They fought desperately. The casualties caused by the catapults were extremely small, and the arrows could not stop their advancing speed. If this continues, the Wei army will soon reach the city. This will cause our army to die. Huge casualties." Du Fuwei said with some worry.

Seeing that there were several catapults showing off their power on the tower, Yang Tong said, "General Kan, you can try to replace the stone bullets with gravel."

Kan Leng glanced at the catapult, and immediately ordered someone to replace the stone bullets with gravel. It took a moment or so to replace the huge 'spoon' that originally pulled the stone bullets into a bag, and put pieces of crushed stone the size of a fist into pieces. Stone loaded in.

"Launch!" Seeing Yang Tong nodding his head, Kan Leng waved his hands fiercely and shouted.

"crunch~"

"Whoo~"

With a dull sound, the entire sky seemed to darken for a moment, and the gravel fell with a sharp scream like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.

Although not as earth-shattering as the previous giant, its lethality is several times that of the boulder. Under the force of the catapult and the gravity falling from the sky, the power of a fist-sized gravel can even penetrate a shield.

In the area covered by gravel, pieces of Wei Jun fell down. Their wooden shields could defend against the shields of sharp arrow clusters, but they were crushed in a moment under the sudden impact of the gravel, hitting people, and immediately Even if a huge blood hole appeared on the body, even if it wasn't a vital point, it was enough to make people lose their fighting power.

In just a split second, the difference between being hit by the gravel is that a large area is empty, stumps and broken arms can be seen everywhere, and the entire battlefield instantly turns into a piece of purgatory on earth.

"This……"

Not only Wei Jun was shocked, but Du Fuwei and Kan Leng were also shocked by this blow.

"Pass down the order to replace all the catapults with gravel." Kan Leng roared excitedly.

"Here!" The soldiers on standby who had witnessed the miracle went downstairs quickly.

After the Sui army changed it to gravel, the killing effect doubled.

"The catapult strikes back!"

Shan Xiongxin, who was in charge of the command, looked at the rain of gravel that bloomed among the crowd and killed a large area, feeling extremely resentful in his heart.

He waved the command flag, and the catapult behind was pushed up. Although the moat had already been leveled, they hadn't knocked down the drawbridge. If the drawbridge didn't come down, they couldn't bombard the city gate. Just relying on the ladder to attack the city now , It’s basically filling it with human life. The war has continued until now, and there are not many soldiers who rushed to the city wall. Our own side has suffered countless casualties, while the opponent’s casualties are very few. If this continues, the Wei army responsible for the first round of attack must be lost .

"crunch~"

Amidst the ear-piercing sound of the gear being pulled, the catapult was slowly pushed to the front line. Accompanied by the grinding sound of toothache, a hundred stone bombs followed the roar of the catapult, separated by a distance of more than 100 steps. With a tragic roar, he rushed towards the city.

"Boom~boom~boom~boom~"

Amidst the huge bombardment, many stone bullets fell on the city wall, and the soldiers who couldn't escape were smashed to blood.

A stone bullet piercing through the air, by coincidence, flew towards Yang Tong's direction. Yang Tong's eyes were fixed, and he stretched out his hand to hold the cracking lance, but before he stepped forward, his eyes dimmed. Kan Leng was already standing in front of him, looking up at the stone bullets falling from the sky, Kan Leng yelled loudly, holding a Mo Dao in his hand, and slashed at the huge stone.

"Boom~"

The stone bullets shattered and turned into countless gravels, which were thrown outside the city wall by Kan Leng with a knife. Many Wei soldiers suffered innocent disasters and were beaten up by the gravels falling from the sky.

"it is good!"

Yang Tong's eyes lit up, this Kan Leng seemed to be better than Wang Xiongdan, which made him feel like he had picked a treasure, and he laughed and said, "Our army has such brave generals as General Kan, so I don't have to worry about it! "

At this time, the frontal battle has entered the cruelest stage. The arrows above and below the city are like a shower of arrows, and people keep falling down from arrows. One ladder after another is built on the city wall. The soldiers of the Wei army climb up like crazy. Holding a shield in one hand, he fought fiercely with the Sui army with spears and knives in the other. The rolling wood and rocks above his head were smashed down hard. Some soldiers always screamed and fell down the ladder, but immediately some people swarmed up.

Dozens of Sui troops were fighting the enemy in front of each ladder. In front of the most south-most ladder, Wang Xiongdan was already jealous. He led fifty Sui troops to fight the surging enemy. When the army was fighting, the Wei army he faced was an elite soldier, each of whom was tall.

The spear rushed, the sword slashed, and the bloody battle was extremely bloody. A Sui soldier in front of the ladder was cut on the forehead, blood poured out, and fell to the city on his back. Another Sui soldier immediately rushed forward with a spear. Pierce the enemy's chest, pick him off the city, and re-resist the gap.

A strong soldier of the Wei army drove away the Sui army above with a shield, and was the first to jump onto the top of the city. In an instant, dozens of spears from the Sui army stabbed from all sides, and the spears pierced through the body. Shouting and rolling down, but at the moment when the enemy rushed to the top of the city, there was a short gap in the defense of the ladder, and he was suppressed on the ladder. city ​​head.

"let me!"

Wang Xiongdan stepped forward in a rage, his weapon was also a Modao, and he swept across thousands of troops, immediately several people were ripped open, corpses and blood filled the walls, he was wearing the heavy armor of a Modao hand, he didn't care about stabbing at all The coming spears swept across with a relentless momentum. Countless Wei soldiers hit the mainstay like a rushing river, with stumps flying and blood gushing. Thanks to Wang Xiongsheng's ferocity, the Sui soldiers immediately made up The gap suppressed Wei Jun again.

"Boom boom boom——"

At this time, hundreds of drums were beating together, and a huge battering ram appeared in the Wei army. The battering ram was also placed on a leather cart. The battering ram was made of hard nanmu. The front end is a ramming head made of pig iron, and it takes two people to hug it. The whole battering ram is nine feet long and weighs several thousand catties. Both sides are nailed with dense iron grippers. It takes two hundred strong soldiers to smash it. I can lift it up.

Eight armored oxen slowly pulled the leather cart, surrounded by [-] elite guards of the Wei army. They are veterans of the "Pushan Public Camp". In appearance, it is exactly the same as the Xiaoguo Army.

However, their task is not to attack the top of the city, but to seize the gate of the east city.

When moving to the front of the city, the car stopped slowly, and two hundred healthy soldiers stepped forward to hold the iron handle on the battering ram, roared in unison, and picked up the battering ram weighing several thousand catties .

Each of them had five soldiers guarding them with shields, defending them from the arrows shot like a storm from the top of the city.There were also a thousand alternate soldiers following behind, and every time someone was shot down, someone would immediately step forward to supplement him.

The cruel side of the war finally appeared at this time. The soldiers of the Wei army used the corpses of their fallen comrades to quickly pave a hundred-step road for the battering ram team that looked like millipede giant insects to step on it smoothly.

Everyone in this team is heavily armored, and they are not afraid of the bows and crossbows on their heads, and they are not even afraid of rolling logs and stones.

On the top of the city, a general led hundreds of soldiers and threw thousands of pottery urns to the battering ram team below the city. The pottery urns shattered and kerosene flowed out quickly. The enemy's confidence in attacking the city gate, Xiang'an County still has thousands of cans of kerosene, which can play a vital role in times of crisis.

Although some soldiers of the Wei army realized that something was wrong, their battering ram team did not intend to stop at all, but instead accelerated towards the city gate.

At this moment, the battering ram has become the focus of the entire battlefield. The nearby Wei army retreated to a safe zone hundreds of steps away and did not continue to retreat. Instead, they used their strong bows to suppress the Sui army on the top of the city. Team escort.

The drums sounded like thunder on the battlefield, and Li Mi in the distance also beat the drums himself, and whether he could succeed or not depended on this blow.

More than a thousand cans of kerosene had been dropped on the top of the city, and when the battering ram team was less than twenty steps away from the city gate, dozens of flaming torches were thrown from the city gate.

With a sound of 'boom', flames burst out from the ground, and quickly spread to the surroundings, and soon spread to the enemy's feet. , Some of them hit the soldiers of the Wei army, and some also fell to the ground, increasing the intensity of the fire.

All animals are afraid of fire, and humans are no exception. When the fire blazed, the two thousand battering ram teams finally panicked. Many people were on fire, screaming and screaming everywhere.

In an instant, the two-hundred-step-long and 150-step-wide city gate turned into a sea of ​​flames, and people on fire were running everywhere, and those who fell subconsciously tumbling and igniting more oily bodies like fires. The screams of the soldiers of the Wei army resounded through the sky.

When the huge battering ram was only a few steps away from the city gate, it crashed to the ground, and then rolled down the small slope in front of the city gate, crushing countless soldiers below into a pulp, and was finally engulfed by raging fire. became a giant pillar of fire
The wailing of the soldiers of the Wei army before their death, the smell of meat in the air, and the ugly meat paste made the outside of Xiang'an County look like a purgatory on earth. Many soldiers of the Sui army couldn't bear to look at it, and they all covered their noses and turned their heads. go.

The drumstick in Li Mi's hand fell to the ground, knowing that the failure of the battering ram team was also the last straw that crushed the morale of the Wei army, and it would be a meaningless sacrifice to continue beating, so he sighed, "Send me the order, the army retreats!"

'Boom!Boom...' In the sound of the drums of the retreating soldiers, the soldiers of the Wei army began to retreat.

The Sui army cheered thunderously in the city.

Yang Tong saw Yang Qinfang next to him covering his mouth and nose, looking uncomfortable and unable to vomit, and couldn't help turning his eyes, and said to Du Fuwei with a smile: "General Du, do you know Yu Xin? "

Du Fuwei was also greatly relieved to see the Wei army retreating. Although he didn't understand why Yang Tong asked Yu Xin, who had been dead for more than 80 years, he said honestly: "Hui Sheng, the last general has been in Jianghuai for many years. I heard that This Yu Xin is a litterateur. His family has "seven generations of scholars" and "five generations of anthology".

"When Yu Xin served as the governor of the state of Zhou, he was simple and quiet in his administration, so that both the officials and the people were peaceful, and he made great achievements. After his death, Emperor Wen deeply mourned him and gave him his job. Zi Yuli's hereditary title. This Yuli is also a great person, an authentic talent, and his writing is first-rate. It's a pity that his ability to defend the city and fight is a layman. After he returned to the puppet Tang, Xue Rengao broke his city in just one day , Yu Li was also captured alive, Xue Rengao admired his talent and wanted to take him for his own use. Unexpectedly, a talented literati like Yu Li would have the best face, not only did he not appreciate it, but cursed him."

"He is a loyal man." Yang Qinfang covered her mouth and praised.

"What is loyalty?" Yang Tong said angrily, "If he is loyal, he won't turn against the Sui Dynasty. This is not just a routine. You try to persuade you to surrender, and I will scold you a few times, and then I will go back and forth. I was moved by your sincerity and had no choice but to surrender, and everyone was happy in the end."

Du Fuwei sneered: "These literati are too shameless."

"What happened later?" Yang Qinfang was anxious to know what happened next.

"Yu Li's method may be useful to Xue Ju, but Xue Rengao is irritable, and he endured it at first. But Yu Li didn't know what to do, and the more he scolded him, the more he scolded him. This finally angered Xue Rengao, and he was furious. , Xue Rengao asked someone to put Yu Li on the fire, and roasted him alive like a whole lamb. After a while, Yu Li was roasted until the outside was charred and the inside was tender, and the fragrance was bursting. Xue Rengao sprinkled salt and chopped green onion himself. , condiments, and cut the meat himself, and let his courtiers eat it!"

"Unexpectedly, Xue Rengao is also such a demon." Du Fuwei sighed: "When Zhu Can's army was short of food, he asked the soldiers to cook women and children to eat, and said to his subordinates, 'There is no better food than human flesh. As long as there are people in other towns, why bother with starvation!', and say, 'Eating a drunkard's meat is like eating wine lees pork'!"

"I heard that when Xue Rengao ate Yu Li, he was very particular. He cut the meat from the thigh first, then the abdomen and then the arms, but he ate the brains with pepper powder. Yu Li, a famous big man in the world, Talented man, only a skeleton is left after being eaten."

"Uh uh uh"

Yang Qinfang's stomach was churning when she heard this, she had never heard of such a demon in the world, and there are so many details about cannibalism, is this still human?Smelling the smell of meat from the city ticket, she almost vomited out the bitter bile.

Looking at Yang Qinfang who vomited pale, Du Fuwei couldn't help but laugh, and before he knew it, he himself became Yang Tong's accomplice.

(End of this chapter)